Sofiretown Youth Crew Experiences & History

Sofiretown Youth Crew is an art recreational NPO collective from Johannesburg, South Africa working and promoting intercultural youth work and exchanges, archiving and exhibiting through multidisciplined mediums of performative arts. It was founded in 2010 as an afterschool extramural program in the historical suburb of Sophiatown and currently working from Soweto, Johannesburg, and Germany.
The crew serves as a living custodian of both the heritage of the suburb and the fashion that it bore from its destruction in the ’50s till its rebirth. The crew often collaborates with institutions, researchers, and creative artists in both public and private spaces.